Thank you, State News, for publishing Nate Allen's cartoons. The State News not only shows that it has a sense of humor, but it also believes in what is great about this country: Freedom and free speech.Maybe people should not get so upset at Allen for making a simple black-and-white drawing.
Spartan football head coach John L. Smith and his team are on their way to making comeback history - only the comeback is for much more than a game.
Eva Bohler recently wrote a letter supporting the monument of the Ten Commandments in Alabama, a letter demonstrating the hysteria and siege mentality characteristic of the Christian right ("Columnist wrong in religious debate" SN 10/6). The removal of the monument was not a restriction on Christians' rights to freedom of speech and religion.
How do you prove that your school system is fine and that choice isn't needed? Cancel classes for a day, impede student learning and engage in a shameful political protest at the Capitol.
As an atheist, I feel compelled to clarify something that Eva Bohler seems to misunderstand ("Columnist wrong in religious debate" SN 10/6): The United States was founded with a secular government and the presence of the Ten Commandments in a government building is illegal - period.
If some Michigan lawmakers have their way, students might want to save their drinking money for court fees and bail.
I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see a full-blown article about depression ("Looking Forward" SN 10/9). There are so many of us on campus, both girls and guys, who suffer from it in silence.
I live in Spartan Village and I pay my $536 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. My rent includes all utilities just, like the dorms, except I don't get cable.
I was appalled to read The State News column "Even without reason, there's a time, place for everything" (SN 10/6). It's hard for me to understand why some people insist that God causes people to die - that "God just takes people when he sees it to be necessary." God doesn't kill people.
It seems as if MSU students are all talk, no walk - some stumble. Well, at least almost no voice. That's right, most of you are part of the silent majority. In an effort to offer students an opportunity to voice their concerns over the new noise policy that can lead to jail time, ASMSU hosted a forum Thursday night in Wonders Hall Kiva.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Arnold "The Austrian Oak" Schwarzenegger has been named California's new governor, another ready-made politician with virtually no relevant political experience, save for the parodies of fighting "crazy terrorists killers" in the Hollywood action thriller "Collateral Damage" and vilifying an Arab population in "True Lies." Normally, I would lament upon the horrific state of public elections and the overwhelming ignorance of most voters, but because I believe that no amount of political fervor and effort will ever reverse this trend of apathy, I won't.
Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt, and Rep. Triette Reeves, D-Detroit, seek to lower the number of people in Michigan with health insurance.
As an organization that values First Amendment rights to the utmost degree, it is not often that we would criticize people for exercising them.
I thought Kirsten Nielsen took a dangerous approach, arguing in her recent article "Even without reason, there's a time, place for everything" (SN 10/6) that God has a reason for allowing people to die.
I know that we as MSU students, staff and alumni have much pride in our Spartan heritage, and often we like to rival our pride with that of our friendly neighbors in Ann Arbor (even to go so far as to rub it in their faces). However, upon walking to and from my classes Wednesday morning, I was struck with an image that is both offensive and repulsive, and quite frankly made me ashamed of some of my fellow student body: the flier "Wolverines Pack Fudge," apparently advertising a T-shirt to promote school spirit for the MSU/U-M game on Nov.
As a permanent resident of the city of East Lansing, I would like to commend the student leaders who are coordinating a petition campaign to force a citywide referendum on the new party-noise ordinance.
Craig Gunn's column condemning smoking is one of his most short-sighted articles I have read in a while ("Smoking: a basic human right or just another annoyance?"). We all know smoking is unhealthy; however, it is our right as citizens of this country to be allowed to have a cigarette.
How would you feel if you were being taught by a homosexual pastor who struggled with alcoholism? It might seem like a strange question, but it is extremely pertinent to today's culture and beliefs about tolerance.
This letter is in response to Eva Bohler's comments on John Bice's column regarding the Ten Commandments ("Columnist wrong in religious debate"). I can't help noticing that many Christians keep citing their own "persecution" (the inability to have school prayer) as a reason for keeping elements of Christianity such as the Ten Commandments public.
MSU and The Ohio State University are getting a clean slate along with the rest of the nation's universities by taking a new look at applications and policies post-U.S.